Leaving my first start-up company in Western MA to work for another in Boston.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

Languishing.

Five snacks you enjoy

dark chocolate with a jar of peanut butter. Sometimes in a dish with a spoon.

olive bread

Rosie’s recipe thumbprint cookies

iced black tea with lemon

a peeled grapefruit

Five songs that you know all the lyrics to

Years ago, the challenge would have been to name five songs I didn’t know the lyrics to. Still, I surprised some colleagues (and myself) at my kareoke debut in Tokyo last November. I am teaching myself the lyrics to “Tears Dry on their Own” by the tragically superbly-piped Amy Winehouse.

The Distance, Cake

Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen

From a Whisper to a Scream, Elvis Costello and the Attractions

The Real End, Rickie Lee Jones

I’ll Be Home for Christmas, US standard

Five things you would do if you were a millionnaire

Give big gobs of money to organizations with feminist goals.

Set up college funds for my nieces and nephews.

Buy my mother a new home.

Move to a progressive neighborhood.

Run for political office with my own money.

Five bad habits

Employing “scorched earth” techniques with the less than perfect.

Being an openly resentful martyr.

Caring what other people think.

Falling in love with loud prints.

Picking at schmutz on my toddler like a mama chimp.

Five things you like to do

Talk.

Sing and Dance!

Cook for friends.

Read.

Go to the sea.

Five things you would never wear again

Oh, this is a tough one. Most of my fashion influence came early vis-a-vis my aunt’s issues of Glamour in the mid ’70s.

Pegged pants.

Buccaneer blouses.

Dayglo socks

Big horizontal stripes

Feather earrings and Fair Isle sweaters, together – but only for health reasons. I’m such a closet “Glamour Don’t.

Five favourite toys

My digital camera

sketchbooks and micron pens

the cd player/sunroof in my car

my magnum peppermill

my little red nano, though I think it could get higher up the list if I used it more often.

Five people I’m tagging (who I think may be good humoured enough to comply and who if they do, will come up with interesting and/or witty things to say) :

And here is where I’m stumped. I’ll update with 5 cool people who may not have been tagged yet.